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Counter-modernism and francophone literary culture : the game of slipknot / Keith Walker.
LIBRA PQ3897 .W35 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Keith Louis.
- Series:
- New Americanists
- New americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--French-speaking countries--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- French-speaking countries.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Black people in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first time the work of six writers who, while artistically distinct and geographically scattered, share complex sensibilities regarding their own relationship to France and the French language and, as he demonstrates, produce a counterdiscourse to their colonizers' modern literary traditions.
- Contents:
- Introduction: In the Denunciatory Tradition 1
- I Countermodernism
- 1 The Game of Slipknot 19
- 2 Toward a Sociology of Humor: Leon Gontran Damas and Body Talk 67
- 3 Counterexertions: Theorizing the Francophone Condition 93
- II Counterstorytelling
- 4 Colonialism, Literary Tradition, and Counterstorytelling 103
- 5 Postscripts: Mariama Ba, Menopause, Epistolarity, and Postcolonialism 126
- 6 Moroccan Independence: Status Inconsistency, Role Conflict, and Consciousness in Tahar ben Jelloun's The Sand Child 148
- 7 The Blossoming of the Undefined Self: Ken Bugul and Le Baobab fou 173
- III Counterconfession
- 8 Words Proffered in Pain: Gerard Etienne, Shame, and the Counterconfession 213
- Conclusion: The Francophone: Coming out from under the Sign of Persephone and "the Dark Night of the Postcolonial African World" 266.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822321106
- 0822321432
- OCLC:
- 40255933
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